Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc1) now available

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 02/01/2017 18:39, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2017-01-02 17:05 GMT+02:00 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
> > Lua 5.3.4 (rc1) is now available for testing at
> >         http://www.lua.org/work/
> ...
> > Lua 5.3.4 also contains several internal improvements and
> > includes a revised reference manual:
> >         http://www.lua.org/work/doc/
>
> The most visible difference is the documentation of
> the length operator, which is now based on the notion
> of a border. This should go a long way towards getting
> rid of the perpetual posts about the non-intuitive default
> behaviour of the length operator. +1.
You're too optimistic, IMHO ;-)

I bet we'll shortly find someone arguing on how intuitive/useful the 
notion of "border" is!

You'd better take that old paint can out of your garage, you never know 
when you need to paint the bike shed anew!

:-D

> Dirk


Cheers!

-- Lorenzo